Valve Steam Machines

Valve's recently-unveiled Steam Machines come in all manner of shapes and sizes, and they'll inject your living room with powerful PC gaming goodness.

Running Valve's made-for-gaming Steam OS and combined with the innovative touchpad-toting Steam controller, the Steam machine experience should serve up more power and better visuals than either the Xbox One or PS4.

Models range from the US$500 quad-core iBuypower with 500GB of storage, 8GB of RAM, and Radeon CGN graphics, all the way up to the insane US$6,000 Falcon Northwest Tiki with Titan Graphics and 6TB of storage.

If you've never had the courage to build your own PC then 2014 is the year to take the plunge into PC gaming.

Oculus Rift Crystal Cove - blow your mind

Best of CES: the gaming tech you'll want to buy in 2014

While Oculus Rift was demonstrating its improved headset at CES, it's the Crystal Cove prototype that absolutely blew our eyeballs and neurons completely away.
Dotted LEDs over the Rift headset's chassis are tracked by a USB webcam, which means that games are able to track how your head leans and tilts in 3D space.

Coupled with a newer 1080p blur-eliminating OLED display, the Rift Crystal Cove prototype is quite possibly the most exciting thing we've seen in all of Vegas this year, and is number one on our gaming wish list.

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PrioVR gaming suit - suit up, hit the floor

While motion sensors like Kinect are impressive in their own right, PrioVr's suit takes things much further. And we love it.

Strapping yourself into its torso, head and limb sensors results in your whole body's movements being tracked with incredible accuracy.

From bashing zombies in with frantic waves of your arms to rolling around on the floor to avoid being shot, the suit adds an unparalleled level of control to virtual shenanigans, thanks to more naturally-translated in-game movements.